FreeIPA Contract Job Trends

Red Hat FreeIPA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FreeIPA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 - 575
Rank change year-on-year - - +185
Contract jobs citing FreeIPA 1 0 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.047%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.017% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 18
10th Percentile - - £668
25th Percentile £613 - £674
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.57%
75th Percentile £638 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

FreeIPA falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,987 4,744 5,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.54% 15.10% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 3,067 4,033
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 60 161
10th Percentile £17.64 £15.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.66 £21.05 £22.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.98% -44.78% +13.81%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.19 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.50 £24.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +127.08% -48.03% +19.95%

FreeIPA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FreeIPA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

FreeIPA job vacancy trend in the UK

FreeIPA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FreeIPA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FreeIPA

FreeIPA
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FreeIPA within the UK over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 1 £625 - 1
England - 1 £625 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £625 - 1

FreeIPA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GoCD
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware